Poor people, must be soul crushing to have a well-paid, 9-5 job with technologies that don't have an eternal carrot on a stick that prevents them from achieving mastery at their trade.

Where is the excitement of working during the weekend to make sure the dozens of random libraries npm downloaded as dependencies of the one you need to display a neon outline in the list of products are compliant?

If you pay me 250k cash I'll have no issue maintaining whatever obsolete tech you wish.

Work doesn't need to be fun.

One of the best places I ever worked. Really good engineers, and a really calm workplace where you are given the time and space to do good work. No dysfunctional 2 week sprints or hours of "agile ceremony" madness, etc. Of course this was 20 years go, and maybe it depended on the team you were on. I don't know if it is the same now. The only time I had a problem there is when my manager came in and said I had to take down my anti-microsoft sign. Idk why - maybe they were trying to do some deal with them.

There is some serious engineering in what they do -- CPU and memory architecture, OS design and implementation, high speed networking, homomorphic encryption are all areas I've collabed with IBM. I assure you, the average engineer quality at IBM I've worked with has been incredibly high and the people themselves very _very_ creative.

Edit/reply: clearly the top comment did not portray the full picture. Indeed, based on recent comments, it does seem like a good place to work at.